Annual Meeting

Frank Brooks Lecture

Dr Brooks was a renowned GI physiologist and was viewed as one of the founding fathers of the field. To that end, Dr. Brooks started the journal Digestive Diseases and Sciences, serving as its first Editor-in-Chief. Recognized nationally and internationally, Dr. Brooks was President of the American Gastroenterology Association in 1980, and won several awards, including its highest one, the Julius Friedenwald Medal. He trained and mentored a generation of students, residents and GI fellows. As described by Dr. Paul Webster, 1978 APA President, Dr. Frank Brooks was a gentleman of the first order, and an individual who supported young investigators and young academicians, a motivator, an organizer, an inspiration and a clinical leader.

2021  Miklos Sahin-Toth MD | Hereditary Pancreatitis: 25 Years of an Evolving Paradigm

2020  Julia Mayerle MD | Immune Mechanisms and Their Role in Influencing the Outcomes in Pancreatitis: Cytokine Storm, SIRS-CARS

2019  Half Century of Pancreatic Cell Biology and Beyond Symposium

2018  Timothy Wang, MD | The Role of Nerves and Inflammation in Pancreatic Cancer

2017  Ronald M. Evans, PhD | Controlling Stroma to Corral Pancreatic Cancer

2016  Craig Logsdon, PhD | The Stressed Acinar Cell: Adapt, Die or Disaster

2015  Matthias Hebrok, PhD | Defining Progenitor Cells for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

2014  Anil Rustgi, MD | A New Perspective on IPMN, PanIN and PDAC Pathogenesis

2013  Steven D. Leach, MD | Ending the Beginning: Targeting PanIN Initiation and Progression

2012  Minoti Apte, MBBS, MMedSci, PhD | A Journey To, and With, the Stars of the Pancreas : Pivotal Roles of Pancreatic Stellate Cells in Health and Disease

2011  Michael Karin, PhD | Obesity, Autophagy & Infl ammation: Common Features in the Pathogenesis and Etiology of Liver and Pancreatic Cancers

2010  Jean Morisset, PhD | The Implication of CCK Receptors in Pancreatic Cancer Development: a Myth or a Neglected Possibility?

2009  Anirban Maitra, MBBS | Pancreatic Cancer in the Post-Genomics Era: Are we ready to take the road less traveled?

2008  John A. Williams, MD, PhD | Mechanisms of Pancreatic Growth Regulation by CCK and Nutrients

2007  J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD | G Protein-regulated Signaling Networks and Cancer: What Have We Learned?

2006  Jonathan Cohn, MD | Mutations in CFTR and Pancreatic Disease

2005  Markus M. Lerch, MD | The Innocent First Minutes of Disaster-How Pancreatitis Begins